Social Capital and International Migration from Latin America

Table 1

Sampling information for surveys conducted in selected countries by the Latin American and Mexican Migration Projects.

Sampling information	Mexico	Dominican Republic	Costa Rica	Nicaragua	Peru
Community samples
Number of communities	128	7	7	9	4
Number households	20,552	904	1,391	1,598	677
Sampling fraction	14.2	13.1	22.0	19.0	11.7
Refusal rate	7.4	4.3	3.6	4.3	38.4
U.S. samples
Number of households	922	74	37	65	48
Number of persons	4,930	370	168	303	170
Total sample
Number of households	21,474	978	1,428	1,789	725
Number of persons	138,711	5,913	7,414	11,168	3,742
Average survey year	1997	1999	2002	2002	2003